St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-26
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giOn, which IS now some sixteen miles from
any road, and is sowing over twenty-five
thousand acres of wheat. 1t was stated that
just at present all energies were given to the
Lake Superior extension, but the Dakota one
would follow. Ii had not been definitely de-
| cided whether the road would eventually seek
the Missouri river at Bismarck or Fort Yates,
sixty miles south. 1t was represented to tho
management that the country west OF Dickey
would soon be all settled up. The Russians
had already taken up the coteaus, the rough
est and poorest part of the country. II
Those interested in the public sale of
liquor object especially to the feature of the
option law that puts the lows in the hands of
the rural voters on this question. The towns
! are allowed to impose an additional license to
that of the county, or even prohibit if the
county votes for license, but they cannot
keep the saloon if the majority IN the county
is adverse. Most of the larger towns will
vote for license. but in nearly all cases the
| country vote will be largely for exclusion.
The bibulous forces are becoming very much
exercised. They apprehend that nearly every
county that secures the requisite petition for
q vote will vote anti-license.
| Petitions under the local option law are al
! ready in circulation in Ransom, Cass, Barnes
| and the other counties north visited by Mrs.
| Barker, the w. c. T. q. president. - This is
| the main object OF her campaign in the North.
| The law requires that the petitions shall have
| one-third of the number of legal voters that
| embarrassment is likely to be found in de-
termning the number of legal voters, and an
unfriendly county board will be difficult to
| satisfy on this point. Still where there is an
! emphatic majority opposed to license some
| way will be found to enforce its will.
The Republican papers are airing the con-
| ceit that Gov. Church has split the Demo-
cratic party in the territory and that some
| how the Republican party will be benefited.
| AS there is but one Democratic Legislative
district in the territory, it does not appear
| how the Repub licans could gain much, even
| II there should be a little discrepancy be-
| tween the governor and some of his party
| leaders. But there Is not likely to be any
| serious division in the party, even il some of
| the appointments are not satisfactory to all
| Democrats.
A. L.. Balm spent couple of months at
Bismarck watching the legislature, and on
his return to st. Thomas in Pembina county,
| made himself solid with his fellow citizens by
| saying: For farming give me the Red river
valley. have talked with men from every
! part of Dakota and none can give so good an
| account of their homes as the citizens from
this fertile region. The counties OF Pembina,
Walsh, Grand Forks, Trail and Cass are
| destined to be the brightest jewels in Da-
| kota's diadem." f-..
The Mitchell Republican, which always has
an eye on the Forty-siXth parallel, buntly
| calls the Bismarck Tribune liar in stating
| that the legislature did not appropriate more
| for the institutions north than was. absolutely
| needed. 1t cites especially the S73,220 for the
! penitentiary and S293, 600 for the asylum, and
insists that man should be an inmate of the
latter who insists that these are legitimate
| figures. They show that Bismarck and
jamestown were fortunate in their represen-
| taton, and, possibly, that there is screw
| loose in the method of voting appropriations.
| AT a temperance meeting in Tower City in
| Cass county the last week, out CT its 400 pop
I ulation $50 signed the pledge, and nearly
| every person in the crowded house stood up
| to vote against the saloon. AS this is the
| town that u year or two ago had several hum
dred members of social drinking club, it
| looks at if there might be growing reason for
| the alarm said to be felt by the drinking in
terests ut Fargo lest the county may, under
the local option law, vote down the city.
Some of the papers are insisting that there
| is still force in the old congressional statute
| prohibiting the governor OF a territory from
| receiving any fees Or salary through the
| action Of the legislature. If this could be
| made to apply, il is claimed that it will stop
| the annual flow of $1,000 into the executive
| pockets. There need be no apprehension
that Gov. Church will accept any perquisites
| not sanctioned by law.
Pierre is preparing to put UP handsomely
tossecure the extension of the Duluth road
| from Aberdeen TO that point. and Faulkton,
| Blunt and all the other towns in the range
| are stl etching out their hands and will open
| their pockets. The connection with the lake
City is especially sought. The management
| of that road talk as if this extension was on
| the programme.
| This is the pleasant way the Yankton Her
| aid refers to the ''soft snap given the lucky
editor of the Sioux Falls Press: ''Gov.
| Church has been pleased to keep E. W. Cnld-
| well at the Democratic trough as commits
| soner to compile the laws of Dakota. OF
| course Cal don't know anything about law,
| ht,f will f,ty;c aop oil fhQ nd
run Republican newspaper
| A man who claimed the name of Will
| Walker lately went to a leading South Dakota
Town that has rising boom, having a carpet
| bag alleged to contain 0.000 to be invested
| in real estate. He left in the night and for
| got to adjust a hotel bill and several other
debts. He is believed to have variety of
names, and will be heard of at other places.
Scotland, In Bon Homme covnty, has shared
| the religious revival work so prevalent of
| late in the territory, and it is related that one
| farmer was converted enough TO go to Il mer-
chant and confess that in 500 bushels of oats
he had taken pay for twelve bushels of sand
| 1t is not reported. that single dealer in coal
anywhere has been converted.
K. W. Wheelock, editor of the Mitchell Re-
| publican, has been at Bismarck the past week
and claims to have learned that Col. Benton is
| holding on to the treasurership until one
Loderwick, who, he says, Gov. Church has
brought out from New York, acquires legal
! right to hold the position. 1t is possible Mr..
| Wheelock does not know.
On the Pierre region the farmers are re-
ported jubilant over the prospect of a big
| crop this year. 1t is said that the ground has
| never before been in rs good condition at this
| time of the year. Persons in Pierre are re-
| ported blowing and planting gardens, but
they are little previous, as the frost may
| nip the early bauar as.
The people of Harlem, in Sargent, claim
ft,cf o,,1-
that as the terminus of its Dakota s. Great
| Southern branch this year at least, and in
| consequence the place is having quite q
| boom. Pratt, OF Fargo is about to open u
| bank there, and the place promises to make
| nice town.
Miss Nina Van Voorhis. the belle of Griggs
| county, lately visited friends at Indiana.
| Penn, and, to the sorrow of several young
| men at Cooperstown, on March %, was mar
| ried TO A. j. Loughry, of the Pennsylvania
| town.
| The sheriff of Hanson county followed to
| Minneapolis the insurance solicitor Place,
| who was charged With victimiZing some
| of the Dakota people, and brought him back
He was admitted to bail, waving examina-
| ton.
Editor Adams, of the Cooperstown Courier,
| returned from his sixty days US Il legislator
| with plumes in his hat, and at once ordered a
! new press for his Office and an elegant frame
for the portrait of the editor-statesman.
1t is surprising how easily the vast body of
| snow has gone off. the ground absorbing
nearly all the water like thirsty man. Very
| little found its way to the streams and rivers
| The ground was very dry and needed it.
| The ice broke in the river at Pierre March
| Is, which is one day earlier than in any since
| there was recnrd-which means back to 1875.
| In only three out of the twelve years has the
| ice failed to go out in March.
| Quite number of bridges on the verrnil-
| ion river in Turner county were washed away
| by recent floods. One on the Northern Pacific